Jane Goodall, In Memoriam
Click Above to Listen OnBeing Jane Goodall with Krista Tippett
The great primatologist and humanitarian, Jane Goodall, died on October 1, 2025, at the age of 91. It is a joy and a comfort to revisit our last broadcast of her 2020 conversation with Krista. Jane Goodall began her epic work studying chimpanzees in the Gombe forest without even a college degree. The science she proceeded to do recalled modern Western science to the fact that we are a part of nature, not separate from it. She spent the last decades of her life on the road, often with the young, tending to human fear and misunderstanding. In this beautiful conversation from the pandemic lockdown, she shared the moral and spiritual wisdom that emerged in her extraordinary life — and the hoe that, to the end, sustained her.
What it means to be human — I mean, I am prosaic. I know that we’re part of a natural progression of life-forms, that we’re not — in many ways, we are so much a part of the animal kingdom. And then what’s differentiated us is this intellect. It was some point earlier, you talked about our intelligence. But we’re not really a very intelligent species, are we, when we destroy our home.
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